I just finished watching a movie called 'Greta', starring Hilary Duff. I expected it to be similar to the many other films she's been in, but it was hardly that. Her character focused on the hardships she was having as a 17 year old, and her deciding what to do with it all. Her mother sent her away to live with her grandparents for the summer - hardly what she would want to do with her time - so that she could be rid of her and build up her (3rd) marriage that sounded as though it was failing. One of the first things Greta told her grandparents was that she was planning to kill herself before she was 18, then proceeded to tell them all of the ways she could succeed. She followed this up with her form of a bucket list - her to do list before she ended her life. This shocked her grandparents ... and myself.
The movie got me thinking about the hardships that people have. Sure Greta complained a lot about random things that didn't really matter, but there was an underlying factor that came out as the movie went on. She felt the way she did for a reason, and a heavy reason at that. Some people go through tremendous downfalls and have problems that other people, including myself, couldn't even imagine, but they make it through it. I guess there is always a way to make it, you just have to be willing to see it. And you have to be able to help yourself before anyone else can.
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